Other stuff too but all that should keep you busy for awhile...not much 2000s noise stuff because a lot of it is bad/boring rehash IMHO.

EDIT: I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT CONTROLLED BLEEDING! there is a lot of good noise stuff throughout there discog but they messed around with a lot of different styles. "Knees and Bones" or the 4CD box "Gibbering Canker-Opera Slaves" are good places to start. Of the later stuff they did, I highly recommend "The Drowning" if you like your harsh noise mixed with some rougher sounding old school industrial ambient type stuff.

Anybody know of any dreamy-spacey electronica a-la Ulrich Schnauss? Thick rich synths, preferably instrumental, and I'd like some sort of soft beat to lock it all down if possible. Any suggestions?

I'm not familiar with Ulrich...isn't that one of those things that came out in the wake of Boards of Canada? Anyway, IMHO a lot of the best melodic/ambient influenced chill-out type techno was released in the early to mid 90s. Maybe you're already familiar with a lot of that stuff, but I can make a few recs if you want.

I'm looking for ambient (presumably dark ambient) in the vein of Lurker of Chalice's non-black metal passages. Use of instruments besides synth desirable, but the most important element is a thoroughly dark, nightmarish atmosphere. I'm completely new to the style, so feel free to recommend even the most obvious ones.

I'm really happy with this thread! I'm familiar with most of the recommendations I read here, nevertheless I'm sure that lots of unknown stuff will follow. I'm working on a new demo now. Somewhere between glitch/idm/sound collage stuff. I'll post some of it here when finished.

My recommendations for now:

To people who enjoy glitch, definitely know Alva Noto (if not, for shame!). He's been teaming up with Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Sylvian fame, among many other projects. The result is piano ridden, sound collage-glitch, which is nothing short of amazing. I got the chance to see them performing live in a Church here.

There's little know about Last Few Days, except for the fact that the're somehow related to Laibach and that they performed with them back in the days. In their existance, they avoided releasing records and performing on a regularly basis, so the mystery around the band is not surprising. Usage of megaphones, broken bottles, feedback worship and violins result into this:

This is an insane request I think, but I still need to know if it's been done before"Epic Noise", I'm really digging Destroyer 666's "Flight of the Pheonix" as well as Panopticon's stuff, also Amon Amarth and Ensiferium to some extent and most recently The Skyrim official soundtrack, most notably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnRQJxanVMBut I want to hear this level of epic-ness in (preferably) harsh noise or some type of dirge-y industrial/dronemaybe akin to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShknpNpHbY (albeit slower and harsher)

This is an insane request I think, but I still need to know if it's been done before"Epic Noise", I'm really digging Destroyer 666's "Flight of the Pheonix" as well as Panopticon's stuff, also Amon Amarth and Ensiferium to some extent and most recently The Skyrim official soundtrack, most notably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnRQJxanVMBut I want to hear this level of epic-ness in (preferably) harsh noise or some type of dirge-y industrial/dronemaybe akin to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShknpNpHbY (albeit slower and harsher)

Is there any easy to get into ambient? Perhaps metal (non black metal atleast) with ambient moments perhaps?

What sort of ambient are you referring to? Ambient is such a vague, nebulous term that takes in a variety of styles; synthy/New Age type music, field recordings, Dark Ambient, Ambient techno, etc. It might help us if you consider this. Also, if you want metal mixed with ambient, what sorts of metal do you like?

For somebody that didn't quite get what I was getting at, you hit the nail on the head, this whole album is almost exactly what I was looking for!many thanks, are there anymore artist that do this sort of thing?

P.S. to cut down the confusion for anyone else, how exactly would you word the request? Not sure if I'm using "epic" right, but it's just how I've always used it.

Is there any easy to get into ambient? Perhaps metal (non black metal atleast) with ambient moments perhaps?

What sort of ambient are you referring to? Ambient is such a vague, nebulous term that takes in a variety of styles; synthy/New Age type music, field recordings, Dark Ambient, Ambient techno, etc. It might help us if you consider this. Also, if you want metal mixed with ambient, what sorts of metal do you like?

For somebody that didn't quite get what I was getting at, you hit the nail on the head, this whole album is almost exactly what I was looking for!many thanks, are there anymore artist that do this sort of thing?

P.S. to cut down the confusion for anyone else, how exactly would you word the request? Not sure if I'm using "epic" right, but it's just how I've always used it.

ahah glad you liked it!this is martial industrial with a touch of noise/rhythmic noise; martial industrial is often epic/orchestral but "clean", while noise/rhythmic noise is "noisy"/electronic but not really epic....so this is not so common (at least as far as I know), but if you want something like that I think you should look for martial industrial

I used to do the odd industrial/metal DJ set round the turn of the millennium, and I'd frequently play these and Cubanate, plus some harder DnB tracks like Mu-Ziq's "Approaching Menace" and Scanner's "Lithia Water".

I used to do the odd industrial/metal DJ set round the turn of the millennium, and I'd frequently play these and Cubanate, plus some harder DnB tracks like Mu-Ziq's "Approaching Menace" and Scanner's "Lithia Water".

im a lifer as far as godflesh goes, from first till last

surprising that you brought up that sound disciples song...i heard it on a kerrang or metal hammer cover cd like 10,000 years ago and it was one of my instant favourites

"my god its true, oh my god its true" "i feel like...i feel like...jesus biting nails" ! thats gonna be stuck in my head now for a while ...thanks

alos know mu-ziq but never thought of them as hard or darkscanner i will check out

any other suggestions...? something like if later day pitchshifter opted to do more cutting edge innovative drum and bass with more crazy rock/punk instead of the rather bland direction they headed into

cant open youtube at work but a quick google search indicates that its drumcorps...i have heard them but what i remember is more like cybergrind/dnb/noise/gabber

here's something i discovered from zardonic's net label ... dont be fooled by the labelling...it definitely is 90 % dark evil sounding hard d n b...just wish there were guitars in there and at least some vocals

Looking for stuff that resembles Witch House. Not really sure about the hip-hop connections the tag has, but I really like the dense melodic songs that rely on keys and melody. Not a big fan of Salem's other work besides this song, but I do like White Ring's "Black Earth That Made me." Other genres are fine, not really stuck to the Witch House moniker.

Yeah, Salem's really the other witch house band I've found that has that really creepy, foreboding stuff. Most witch house reminds me of chillwave on sizzurp. I will also recommend Lake Radio's Planet Earth About to be Recycled, Balam Acab's See Birds, and my favorite witch house release, ^'s Wire Migraine. Interestingly enough, the lead singer from the Deftones has a witch house project. Haven't heard it yet though.

It seems like one of the big criticisms of Alcest is that they simply aren't as good as their contemporaries, which their fans assumedly haven't been exposed to. So what can you guys give me in the way of melancholy Shoegaze-y stuff? Doesn't need to be metal, but I don't want anything too happy, at least not without some contrasting sadness.

And while I'm here, does anyone know of anything remotely close to Ulver's Shadows of the Sun? Emotionally complex, reserved, heavily atmospheric, awesome, etc.

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